axont [she/her, comrade/them]

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  • From what I know the only practical military application of coil guns would be artillery. It's quieter than conventional artillery and also produces no flash or smoke. Small arm coil guns seem hilariously inefficient unless you poison the round or something.

    There's a coil shotgun on the market that has a muzzle energy of about 85 joules. For comparison an average pistol will be around 550 J. A 5.56mm rifle is around 1800 J.



  • It's not fully constructed, but it was dead as an everyday language. It became a clerical/liturgical language like how Catholics use Latin. It was like that for centuries while Jews adopted European languages, Arabic, or integrated Hebrew into languages creating things like Yiddish and Ladino. Hebrew got revived as a spoken language in the late 19th century by some of the first Jewish settlers in Ottoman Palestine.

    Something I've always found interesting though is how modern Hebrew was revived in order to eliminate Yiddish, but in doing so there's a bunch of Yiddish features of modern Hebrew. I've always wondered how different things might have turned out had Arabic speaking Jews revived Hebrew instead.

    But yeah modern Hebrew was Jurassic Park'd back into existence, even including the part of integrating stuff into it's DNA





  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]toEl ChismeSeppos are so cooked
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    3 days ago

    I always have a hard time explaining this but it's cockney rhyming slang. where a two word phrase is reduced to the first word, then the second is rhymed with a different word to form new slang. For instance to "take a butcher's" means to look at something, since look rhymes with "butcher's hook."

    In the case of seppo, it's derived from "septic tank" since tank rhymes with yank. So it refers to Americans.



  • "this ethnic group with its own traditions and customs would gladly abandon their identity if given the opportunity to become American subjects"

    this is the whitest thing I've ever seen. Complete western brain. There are millions of Hmongic speakers and the Miao retain their culture and values, while also speaking Mandarin/Cantonese. They're a recognized and protected ethnic group by the Chinese state and this is tyranny? Asking them to trade away their culture and language is freedom? Cool











  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]toEl ChismeWill "Cassandra" Menaker
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    8 days ago

    Liberals absolutely did this and not just to Muslims. Over the past year I can't count how many times I got accused of wanting a gay, trans, Latin, etc genocide here in America because I didn't want a genocide in Palestine.

    I was outright told my choices were an American minority genocide plus Palestinian genocide, or just the one in Palestine. What they never even suggested is that is that if these are our only options, there should be riots, not voting. Instead they browbeat leftists by saying Trump will be a Double Zionist or something.

    This is the same feeling I get back when liberals were rabidly in favor of the Iraq War, then after Bush got re-elected suddenly they all flipped to opposing it. They wanted Bush to win, or at least someone kinda like Bush (Kerry), so they could still peddle their controlled opposition garbage.